It’s an interesting experiment. How many sounds can you hear right now? At first you may only recognize of a couple. The obvious sounds. But if you focus on listening you will likely hear many individual sounds around you, which were previously being filtered out of your awareness.

Right now I’m sitting in a park. I can hear breeze in the leaves, a person turning pages at a bench nearby, people talking, cars on a nearby road, birds, an air conditioner on a building close by, a car door closing, wind passing my ears, my jacket as I type, my own breathing… and that’s in a quiet spot.

What are you hearing now? And what do you hear when you listen, that was there but never heard before?